Nah, the magic system is fine, they just didn’t use it right. Example: Snape wondering if somebody is there. “Accio Invisibility cloak!” Boom, Harry’s standing there visible and Snape has his cloak!

Have a yabba dabba do time, a dabba do time…

It’s simple, when Trump sees a bus he throws something under it.

Read this before you use a bulk utility to delete your reddit comment history.

Comments deleted from reddit aren’t actually erased or removed, they are merely marked as deleted so they don’t appear anymore. The content still exists and can be used by reddit for AI training, marketing or opinion research, or whatever. If you want to truly eliminate all the content you have contributed so they can’t use it anymore, read the docs about a utility and make sure it first Edits each comment and overwrites it with meaningless words before deleting it. Reddit only keeps the most recent version of a comment, so this technique leaves a worthless bunch of garbage in place for AI algorithms to enjoy.

Several years ago I used a Chrome extension. whose name I don’t remember but I think it had “nuke” in the title. There are various browser extensions out there, just be sure to pick one that says it overwrites comments before deleting.

You put a ton of thought into a comment nobody notices and then “Exactly!” gets 2000 upvotes.

We’ll just look at one last thread!

Now we’ll look at one VERY last thread!

Look at all these threads!!

I thought it was just me getting older and my eyes getting worse, but headlights have really gotten ridiculous in the last 20 years or so. Related pet peeve is people walking at night in dark clothes, not even looking up when they cross the street.

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Their feeling, or at least the way their leaders are telling them to feel, is that America is the world’s Daddy and our “so-called” allies are leeching off us like no-good adult children who still live at home and eat all the Nutella, so we have to shake them off to be Great Again.

The older you get, the more things are like programming in bash.

I’m tired of people seeing everything as binary good or bad. We have more than two brain cells, and life isn’t a fucking meme.

Related trivia: Modern relatives of Benjamin Franklin include Kristin Wiig, Bill Macy and Amy Poehler.

I think it’s a very interesting point. The whole concept of how fiction affects us is fascinating to me. Our idea of what it meant to be human used to come entirely from watching real people around us. Now we’re exposed to hundreds of fictional characters, and we get to know some of them better than we know our actual friends. Despite objectively knowing they’re fictional, they still influence our picture of what being a person means, because that’s just how our brains work. I think most modern people have the feeling their own lives aren’t as exciting or interesting or hilarious as they should be.

Paranoia can tell you anything you don’t control is a threat - whether it’s another country, a race, a personality type, lack of web privacy, whatever. The MAGA leaders are so drenched in that paranoia, there’s really no limit to what they might do to squash anyone and anything they see as a possible threat to them.

I could say the same about Germans based on their tourists, but it’s because the most obnoxious people tend to be the most noticeable. Then meme-level thinking makes the false assumption that millions of others must be identical to them, because “it’s obvious” or some such irrefutable logic.

The worst decisions make the best stories. - Unknown

You can’t leave the party if you can’t find the door. Randall Jacobs, aka Uncle Bunky

obituary, worth reading

You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago. - Alan Watts

I agree it’s good to credit a writer, but the attribution should also include the character so the quote has context. For example, I would want there to be a distinction between a comment I made in real life and a line I wrote for a psychotic character to say.

Thought provoking!